Hair of the Dog Rose

Formerly brewed at Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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UPDATED: JUL 12, 2005 12 oz Bottle, Batch #20 (Golden Rose Version); sampled June 2004: Bronzed honey. Almost totally still with large brown bubbles that quickly move to the edges of the glass and cling together in a ring. Sticky caramel sugar aroma. Still a few hop flower remnants as well. Woodiness and Earthy components sooth and calm initially. Completely flat palate. Wonderful chewy caramel infused hop cones. After several years the flavours are left with a totally dulled hop bitterness and a combination of fruit (plums & cherries), fresh honey suckles, brown sugar, and strawberries. This one has turned into a darkened, old ale-esk beer and really works (except for the flat palate). I was a bit worried about this one as many people have said it doesn’t age well, but I would put an asterisk next to that. The palate/body/carbonation don’t hold up with age, but the flavours mesh together into a truly special and unique brew; put one aside and wait if you can. 9/3/8/2/17
12 oz Bottle, Batch #39; sampled July 2005: golden garnet with a slight haze below an amazingly retentive tightly bubbled ivory foam. Honeyed cloves stars are in abundance throughout the aroma along with a light hoppy bitterness, fresh biscuits, hints of pepper and all spice. Delicate palate (I can see how my first sample totally died…) that doesn’t have the body to deliver the full carbonation…herbal flavours stick to the tongue and gums and a light sweetness clings to the sides of the mouth long after the liquid slides away. Though the palate gets destroyed in the age process, I still think that I like this one better after some time in the cellar…8/4/7/3/15

355ml bottle @ Ølbaren, Copenhagen

Batch 41 - Pours murky reddish brown with a tiny bubbly head. Aroma of ripe fruits, malts and cellar notes. Taste is malty and yeasty with tart ripe fruits and slight sourness. Next to no carbonation, fruity and berry finish. A bit unbalanced, perhaps has seen its best days.

355 ml bottle @ Ølbaren. Batch #41. 2005 vintage.
Pours clear amber color with no head. Aroma of ripe fruits, sour berries, nettle, rose hip and barnyard notes. Flavour of ripe fruits, sour berries, herbs, mild caramel and rose hip. Obviously has seen better days.
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35,5 cl bottle @ Ølbaren, batch #41
Aroma is slightly sweet with caramel, some rosehip and moldy potato cellar. Flavour is rather weird with moldy cellar aromas, some tart red wine and hints of vinegar. Far from a tripel and definitely past its prime.

355 ml bottle @ Ølbaren, Copenhagen. Batch 41.
Pours an amber colour without a head. Aroma of sweet raspberries, mandarin orange and some yeast. Flavour of sweet raspberries, dough, wood and some malts. Light bodied, slick mouthfeel and a watery, slightly fruity finish with some alcohol. Has clearly seen it’s best days already.

bottle, batch 2 when it was called golden rose, from 96 I believe... a bit oxidized as you would think but really easy to drink with some great honey notes, alcohol well hidden... I’d track down one of the 2000 batches for sure!

Murky amber color with a small off-white head. Sweet sugar and toffee, a little bit of floral aroma. Sort of just old...Sweet malt, sugar, oxidized, watery, toffee, and bread.

Bottle from Ölkonsotiet cons 2011-07-07 Göteborg AR: flowery (rosehip), black peppery AP: Earl grey colored body, a bit beige ... Diminishing head. Thick liquid. F: short but heavy flavor of rosehips, rose pepper, a bit overall dry feeling, finish is peppery, wee bubbles. Yolk is perhaps a bit sweeter.

Bottle (batch 41) shared by doug, thanks
Appearance: Cloudy brown/amber color with a small off-white head and light lacing
Aroma: Sweet malts, caramel and brown sugar
Taste: Brown sugar, medicinal and woody
Nice

12 ounce bottle batch 41 thanks to Jacob. Pours a murky caramel color with a medium white head that quickly dissipates. An interesting nose of sweet candied beets (I mean, this is something I’d never put a finger on it till it was mentioned but now I can’t help notice it) and some tartness. The flavor is a very odd medicinal/herbal mix alongside both tart flavors and more traditional sweet sugary Tripel flavors. Some oxidation. Interesting.

Bottle, Golden Rose, shared with GT2, thank you kindly sir! Pour is hazy dark gold with a small yellow head, no surprise given the age. Aroma is fantastic: rich malty barleywine, caramel, butterscotch, orange, spiced beets. Flavor is burnt sugars, creme brulee, butterscotch. Very sweet. Palate is oily, warm, sweet, a bit flat. Great stuff.